Leaders of churches actively engaged in cooperation and the search for common witness will meet in Greece early next month to address the question of “Christian unity from a new perspective”.

Church representatives from Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia will visit churches and civil society groups in India to back justice and peace work and oppose caste discrimination and violence against Christians.

The World Council of Churches has called upon the Israeli government for "an open-ended freeze" on all settlement construction and expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The election of a new General Secretary and the choice of Korea for its 10th assembly were key moments for the World Council of Churches Central Committee meeting ending this week.